Category: Social Movements
Farmers demonstrate at the Singhu Border protest camp outside New Delhi on 29 December 2020. Photo: Ranjini Basu
A visit to India’s Singhu Border protest camp
For more than a month, farmers have laid siege to India’s national capital New Delhi, demanding...
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Representatives of farmer unions leave Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi after a meeting with Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on 5 December 2020. Photo: Kamal Singh/PTI
Long march to peasant unity
The unprecedented unity among peasant organisations is not a sudden development. It has been built...
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Student protestors occupy Sanam Luang, beside Bangkok's Grand Palace, on 19 September 2020. Photo: Jacob Goldberg
The political education of Thailand’s dissident youth
Thailand’s anti-government, anti-monarchy protests may have been triggered by recent abuses, but...
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T Peter: 11 December 1957 - 8 October 2020
Remembering T Peter: Street fighter, trade unionist, leader of India’s fishworkers
T Peter, General Secretary of the National Fishworkers Forum (NFF), passed away on 8 October 2020...
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Indigenous and spiritual leaders of Timuay Justice and Governance offer a ritual in Maguindanao on the occasion of their Indigenous Political Structure's founding anniversary on October 3, 2017. Photo: Galileo de Guzman Castillo
The subversion of the Philippines’ Indigenous People’s Rights Act
The following paper was presented under the title The Philippines’ Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act...
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Thousands protested against Martial Law in Pepe Diokno Freedom Park, Quezon City, on September 21, 2020. Photo: PhilRights
Collective struggle, collective strength
By Galileo de Guzman Castillo, Joseph Purugganan, and Bianca Martinez As we commemorate today the...
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Swiggy employees go on strike in Chennai, India, in August 2020. Photo: Thandora Times
Indian Labour Law Must Recognise Platform Workers’ Rights
Statement issued by an Alliance of Labour Unions and Civil Society Organisations September 22,...
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SPI Peasants in Tebo Fight Against Land Grabbing, Implementing Genuine Agrarian Reform
JAKARTA—Agrarian reform is a priority program of the administration of President Jokowi and...
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Till, sow and harvest transformative ideas for the future! Now is the moment to demand food sovereignty – #17April
LVC Press Release | 15 April 2020 (Harare) On 17 April 2020 – the International Day of...
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Toward land justice : Thai farmers’ struggles to defend their land and life
A public event was held on 17 to 18 November 2018 at Thammasat University, Bangkok to discuss and...
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Special Edition on the International Day of Peasants’ Struggles
To mark the International Day of Peasants’ Struggles, Focus on the Global South releases this...
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Focus on the Global South at the 2016 World Social Forum
From 9-14 August 2016, Joseph Purugganan, our Philippines Head of Office, and Shalmali Guttal, our...
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